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3141 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine Exploration, 2a.14

… that legal, business and literary documents must have existed. These show that letter-writing was used not only in great questions of state between foreign …

3142 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Paraclete.4

… ) a legal advocate, or counsel for defense, (2) an intercessor, (3) a helper, generally. The first, or technical, judicial meaning is that which predominates in classical …

3143 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Paraclete.6

… the legal, technical sense. Joseph is represented as bestowing forgiveness on his brethren who had wronged him and declaring that they needed "no one else …

3144 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Parchment.2

… scrolls, legal documents, etc., having replaced papyrus for that purpose. It was no doubt used at even a much earlier time. The roll mentioned in Jeremiah 36:1 …

3145 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Pastoral Epistles.50

… specific legal requirements of the Old Testament. What they taught was a form of piously sounding doctrine assuming to be Christian, but which was really …

3146 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Paul, the Apostle, 4.7

… of legal terms like "adoption" ( Galatians 4:5 f), where the adopted heir becomes son, and heir and son are interchangeable. This was the obsolete Roman law and the …

3147 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Paul, the Apostle, 5.11

… mere legalism ( Galatians 2:21 ). But the Judaizers had renewed the war, and they would keep it up and harry the work of Paul all over the world. Paul had the fight …

3149 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Paul, the Apostle, 5.24

… a legal way, as the matter was before the Roman courts very soon. The attack on Paul in the temple was while he was doing honor to the temple, engaged in actual …

3150 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Paul, the Apostle, 6.3

… ceremonial legalism. We are free from the curse of the law ( Galatians 3:13 ). Grace is the distinctive word for the gospel ( Romans 3:1 - 31 through Romans 5:1 - 21 ), but …

3152 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Pentateuch, 1.31

(7) The Legal Evidence of Pentateuch

3153 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Pentateuch, 2b.12

… . The legal arguments are due to a variety of misconceptions, the washing out of the historical background and the state of the text. Reference must be made …

3154 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Pentateuch, 2b.22

… the legal evidence to be considered, the most reasonable explanation is to be found in a theory of contemporary authorship.

3155 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Pentateuch, 2b.23

… ) The Legal Evidence of Genesis. The legal evidence is perhaps more convincing, for here no theory of late authorship can be devised to evade the natural inference …

3156 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Pentateuch, 2b.29

… to legalize some such unions ( Numbers 31:18 ). And this chapter also contains a law of booty. What could be more unsuitable? How and where were the Jews to make conquests …

3157 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Pentateuch, 2b.33

… ) The Legal Evidence of the Pentateuch. As this subject is technical we can only indicate the line of reasoning. Legal rules may be such as to enable the historical …

3158 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Pentateuch, 2b.34

… by legal evidence (e.g. Deuteronomy 22:26 testifies to the undeveloped intellectual condition of the people). Of JE it is unnecessary to speak, for Exodus 21 …

3159 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Pentateuch, 2b.36

… purely legal development (see further below,IV, andOP, passim).

3160 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Pentateuch, 3.3

… of legal style is that it should be clear and unambiguous to contemporaries, and today no judgment can be offered on that head. There is, however, one feature …